Educational game



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Patented Dec. 2, 1924.

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Application filed um 19, 1923, Serial in. 024,225.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FELIX F. LLERA, a subject of Mexico, and EDWARDGREGoRY' Caro, citizen of the United States, residing 6 at Tucson, inthe county of Pima and 'State of Arizona, have invented a new, useful,and Educational Gam,.bf which the following is a specification. Q Thisinvention relates to games, and par- 10 ticularly to a game whereinaboard is used provided with a' circuitous path from a starting point toa final objective, and inwhich various obstacles are placed forincreasing the difiiculty of reaching the objective, and wherein achance controlled device governs the movement of game pieces on the pathprovided on the board.

An object of the invention is to provide a game of the above character,wherein the game board is provided with a plurality of squares arrangedin alignment to form a circuitous path, starting at one corner of theboard, and arrangedin onsecutive relation in forming the path, so thatthe other" ends of the square will terminate in the central portion ofthe board in an enlarged square, which forms the final objective or goaland in which said consecutively arrange squares are numbered from thestarting point in consecutive order, andwherein redetermined blanksquares are, arrange in connection with certain of the numbered squares,for indicating changes. from the normal path of the circuit, in order tomakev it more difficult and increase the length of path of travel forreachingthe goal. Another object of the invention is to provide a gamehaving aboard, formed as above described, and providing a game piecehaving a rotatable disc which is prowhich are more particularly pointedout in the following description and claims, directed to a preferredform of the invention,

it being understood, however, that variations 1n the specificconstruction of these parts may be made, without departing from thescope of the invention as described and claimed. y i Inithe drawing,forming a part of this ap hcation: t

igure 1 is a plan view of'the game board constructed in accordance withthis invention. a

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view through the indicating device,used in play squares 'indicated at 2, which are arranged beginning atthe starting point 3, ingconsecutive aligned order extending entirelyaround the edge of the board and then inwardly toward the center portionin a spirallike formation, the end of the path formed by the squaresarranged asjustdescribed, 1

terminating at an enlarged square indicated at 4, which forms theobjective or goal of the game to be played on the board. These squaresarrange as described, are numbered consecutively beginning withthesquare at the starting point'3, and in the present case includeseighty-five in number, inclusive of the uares 4, which are numbered asindicated in the drawings. This forms the most direct path of reachinthe objective, and is followed in playing ti a players marker comes torest on certain predetermined squares, which are marked to indicateobstacles 'which must be overcome before reaching the objective square4. In

the present case, a plurality of squares are provided with indicia B,which indicates that the players marker coming to rest on the squares,must count back instead of forward, in the direction of the arrowsindicated at 5, which extend across the blank squares indicated at 6,which are interposed betweenthe convolutions of the squares 2, toprovide by-paths from an inner convolution e game, unless.

b player coming to rest on these squares counts again the number ofsquares WlllCh were counted in reaching the square marked C,

, and which gives the player an advantage over the other player playingthe game, in reaching the objective 4; A predetermined number of othersquares are rovided with indicia indicated by the letter which maydesignate any particular action of the player, coming to rest in thesquare containing the R, as agreed upon, at the time of'beginning theplay of the game, and it willbe obvious that other obstacles may beinserted in other predetermined squanes, which may have any desiredefi'ect upon the playing of the game as agreed-upon by the players, atthe start. Any suitable form 0 marker, preferably ansmall disc about thesize of the square 2, ma be used in playing the game. t he indicatordevice is indicated generall at 7, and includes an annular base mem r 8,having an upwardly ofi'set central bottom portion 9, provided with acentral depending projection 10, while the outer edge of the disc has anupwardly extending annular flange 11,'terminating in portion 12, atopposite sides of which are secured the free end .13, of the invertedU-shaped bracket member 14. The central ortion of the 3' of thedrawings. A

bracket member 14 is forme with an opening in alignment with thedepending projection 1 0 for rotatably mounting a pin 15, in saidbracket having a reduced extension 16, seating in said dependingprojection 10, which pin is provided with a disc 17 mounted thereon andadapted to rotate therewith,

which is positioned in spaced relation to the bottom portion 8, and in aplane substantially horizontal with the upper free edge of theupstanding flange 6. A collar 18 mounted on the pin'15 is adapted toengage the under side of the bracket 14 and prevents accidental removalof the pin and the reduced extension 16 from the depending projection10.

The disc 17 is formed with a plurality of concentric circular spacesindicated at 19 and 20 respectively,-which are divided means extendingradially of the disc, as in dicated at 21, which sections are numberedin any suitable manner, as shown in Figure pair of indicator pointersare indicated at 22 and 23 respectively, the indicator 23 being shorterin length than the indicator 22 and pointed at one end for cooperationwith the inner and into sections, by lines or -other suitable outerconcentric spaced respectivel while the other ends are loosely mounte onthe pins 18 as shown in Figure 2.

In playing the game, each player uses a separate marker, andspins orrotates the pin 15 in turn, and as soon as it is rotated the finger isplaced on the upper end of the pin and the rotation immediately retardedand stopped, following which the numbers indicated by the pointers 22and 23, in the respective concentric spaces indicate the number ofsquares the player is to move from the starting point, toward theobjective 4. Each player follows out the same procedure, in turn, untilone of the players reaches the goal or ob'ective and wins the game.During the a vance around the spiral path of numbered squares 2, if theend of a move made by a pla er is one of the squares having indicia mared therein, the following move made b a layer must be as directed by theindlcia 1n the particular square, which in the case of B, indicates thatthe player should go back by way of the arrow to the next adjacent arrowconvolution of the path and start toward the objective from this intwhich forms a set back and takes t e player a greater length of time andmore plays to make the goal, whereas if the player comes to rest on oneof the squares marked C, he counts again the number of moves which werejust made to reach the square marked C, and so forth.

From the above description, it will thus be seen that a novel form ofgame board has been provided, wherein a circuitous path formed of aplurality of squares terminating in an objective in the central ortionof the board and having predetermined s uares marked withindiciaindicating the o stacles of the 'game, and a game piece formed ofa substantially simple structure having a base, andan inverted U-bracketcarried thereby rotatably mounting a pin having a disc formed withconcentric sectional spaces rovided with numerals indicating the a vanceto be made in playing the game, in cooperation with suitable pointersloosely mounted on the pin.

What is claimed is:

1. In a plurality 0 squares arranged in a circuitous path starting atone corner of the board and ending in the central portion thereof, whichis provided with a substantially enlarged square formin the objective,said squares being numbered consecutively from the starting point, aplurality of intermediate blank squares being provided between theadjacent portions of the circuitous path indicating by-paths to lengthenthe ath to the objective, predetermined players aving indicia thereindesignatin the obstacles in the path, and certain of WI? ich cooperateto indicate when the by-paths are to be used in cooperation with themain path.

2. In a game, a board provided with a plurality of squares arranged in aspiral path beginningat one corner of the board and ending in anenlarged central square which forms the objective, the convolutions ofsaid path being spaced a distance equal to the size of a square, thesquares of said paths being numbered consecutively from the startingpoint, a plurality of blank squares arranged between adjacentconvolutions of the spiral path and cooperating therewith to provide amore circuitous path to reach the objective, and indicia arranged inpredetermined squares indicating obstacles to be overcome in the pla ingof the game, certain of said indicia in icating the use of the blankspaces for following a more circuitous path to the objective.

3. A game piece for chance controlled games comprising an annular basehaving an upstanding flange thereon, an inverted U-shaped bracketsecured to the upper edge of the flange at diametricall opposite points,a pin rotatably mounted in the U' bracket and base, a disc mounted onthe pin in spaced relation to the base, and provided'with concentricallyarranged spaces having numbered sections, and indicating pointersloosely mounted on the pins for movement thereon relative to the discfor cooperation with the sections of respective spaces for groducing anindication.

F LIX F. LLERA. EDWARD GREGORY CAPO.

